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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
starting to wonder if "ownership" is just the wrong metaphor to describe what happens when you buy an NFT. obviously it's not the same as ownership in the traditional sense and a lot of people are correctly noticing that and being like "yo wtf". a new concept is needed
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Arden Leigh
@itsmeardenleigh
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The moon but it’s an NFT. You can buy it. It exists in the sky for all to see but only one person owns it. For bragging rights. Bragging rights to the moon. Who’s in.
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
in the NFT nudes example, for me, the point is not that someone "really owns" the nude, it's that the person who is selling the nude is choosing to "point" to a specific copy of it. that pointing action is the actual value. it's sexy. people want that
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
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so actually the NFT use case that makes the most sense to me so far is NFT nudes. insofar as the NFT architecture imposes artificial scarcity on top of infinitely copyable information, at least an NFT nude gets to be like “this is the special copy that’s just for you big boy 😘”
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